Foldable shipping-box.



@HES HFM,0]F ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY Ill/IESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

T0 JBETHA VIRGINIA HOFMAN,

or ROCHESTER, NEW Yoan. A

FOLDJBLE SHIPPING-BOX.

Specication of Lettere Jlatent.`

Patented dan, 2, 494.

Application led May a4, 11916. Serial No. 99,500.

v .To all 'wlwmz't may concern:

lBe it known that I, CHARLES HOFMAN, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Foldable Shipping-Boxes; and ll do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine,reference bemg had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, and to the refervence-numerals marked thereon.

y invention has for its purpose to construct a foldable packing orshipplng box from a single blank of material, such as cardboard, heavypaper, or other flexible fibrous substance, and'is designed to a'ord astructure which can be more or less economically manufactured andfurnishes a rigid, strong and durable container susce tible of beingreadily packed and fulfils all the requirements of a box of this generalclass. To these and other ends the invention consists in certainimprovements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter morefully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims atthe end of the specification.

lin the drawings: y

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blank from which the box isformed;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the blank partially assembled andcollapsed; ig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the box whenassembled;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4a of Fig. 3, looking in thedirection indicated;

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on line 5- of Fig. 3, and

F ig. 6 is a perspective view showing the box assembled for filling.

Similar reference numerals in the several gures indicate the same parts.

he invention may be carried out in .different ways other than that aboutto be describe but for the purposes of illustration, l have shown apreferred embodiment for which there is employed a blank, whichcomprises twobodyjportions each consisting of a central sectionjl andside sections 2, the latter being ada ted'to overlap one another in thecomplete box, 4. The body portions are disposed on opposite sides of anend3, which is connected thereto by walls 4 that are adapted to fold Btgun the inner surfaces of the walls of as illustratedin Fig' to the wallsof the body when the body portions, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that theend 3 may be inset with reference to the ends of the body portions.l Thewalls 4 are secured against the walls of the body portions Ain anydesirable manner, as by staples, rivetsor the like. The end 3 hasconnected to its' free edges extensions, one of which comprises an innerWall 5 and an outer wall 6, while the other comprises an inner wall 7and outer wall 8. The wall 8 is adapted to be located interiorly of theadjacent wall of the body portion, as shown in Fig. 5, for attachmentthereto, affording a bracing and stiifening means, while the wall 6 isadapted to be positioned exteriorly of the body ortion and .to besecured after the box is filled, insetting of the end 3 being permittedin each instance by the inner walls 5 and 7.

\ A second end 9 is similarly connected with the adjacent body portionand is provided with extensions at its free edges, including inner walls10, 11 and 12, respectively, and outer. walls 13, 14 and 15respectively. rlhe walls 14 and 15 are wider than the wall 13, as shown,and are adapted to lie adjacent the inner surfaces of the walls of thebody portion, to which they are attached by securing devices that may beused for the purpose.

in assembling the structure, the parts are secured together in themannershown in Fig. 6, with the" upper flaps 2 of the body portions andthe walls 6 and 13 of the extensions open, and after the box is packed,y

the side sections 2. are brought downwardly into overlapping relationand the walls 6 or otherwise.

ll claim as my invention:

1. A blank for a foldable shippingbox, comprising body portions withsections of one body portion adapted to overlap correspondin sections ofthe other body portion, an end ocated between said body portions, wallsconnecting the end and body portions, and adapted to lie adjacent towalls of the body portions when the box is folded to affor an inset end,extensions at the' free edges of said end adapted to lie adjacent and 13are thensecured by nailing, riveting folded, a second end connected thebody adjacent to a wall of the bodyv when the box is folded, andextensions carried by the tree to one of the box is portions by a walladapted to lie located adjacent to edges of the second end and adaptedto be the walls of the body when the blank is folded, the said endextensions acting to hold the aforesaid overlapping sections of the bodyportions together.

2. A blank for a foldable shipping box comprising body portions withsectlons of one body portion adapted to overlap corresponding sectionsof the other body portion, an end, a wall connecting said end andl bodyportion, and extensions carried by the free edges of the end and adaptedto lio adjacent to the walls of the body when the blank is folded, andacting to hold the aforesaid overlapping sections of the body por tionstogether.

CHARLES HOFMAN.

Witnesses:

HARRIET T, VAY, H. E. STONEBRAKER.

